RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny][.06].13-15. Camellia / Draft of Cross and self fertilisation. CUL-DAR209.3.88. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR209.3 contains materials on Circumnutation of leaves and hyponasty for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Cross and self fertilisation, p. 379.


[88]

Camellia 13' at (yesterday resting)

8° 25'

9°—

9. 15 an atom up ( perhaps 1' dot false )

10° 20'

11. 25 little down & to left

1° original upper spot

2 down

3° down & to left

4° up. straight

5° down & to right

6 up & right short way

7° 15 up & to left

9 gone back to the very first spot made

 

14th 6° 40'a.m.

— 6° 40' slided pot at same distance

8° same spot

9° 10 little vertically down

10 .10    do

11. 35 up & to right

12. 50 somewhere on old line

 

to left →

[sketch]

 

2° no change

3' 10 somewhere within  same space

4. 30' 2d spot

V 6. 5

7° 20

9° nearly same place

15

6°. 50

tip 12 inches in oblique line from vertical glass

Leaf with short petiole 2 ¾ long

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[left side of page excised]

æ 1837, p. 349. Sex Also

pions on this subject in his

p. 670; and Kenntniss der

510, 573. Also Lecoq, de la

27. some accounts statements have

te years of the extraordinary

ts to revert to their parent-

said that how they were care

cts, it may be suspected

lised with pollen from a distance from the

tung, p. 539, 550, 575, 576.

(quoted by Gärtner, Kennt=

worthless in all other respects,

ly flowers are intercrossed

 


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